Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > Maybe. I admit to not really using the Travis tests myself, as they are > way too slow and cumbersome to debug compared to just running "make > test". The primary value to me of centralized CI is: > > 1. _If_ people are looking at PRs on GitHub, the test status is shown > right there in the PR, without a reviewer having to wonder whether > the submitter ran "make test". But since I don't ever look at PRs > for Git, that's not helpful.
What I was hoping was that bots like SubmitGit could look at that status. > 2. Quicker testing on a variety of platforms that I don't have. > > ... I think > there was some discussion in the 0day thread elsewhere on the list, > but I didn't follow it too closely. Yes, I'd love to see it happen some day. > Anyway, back to the original question. I do think "test as root" can be > considered another platform, which makes it a good match for CI. But at > the same time, I don't know that it has ever surfaced an actual bug in > _Git_, and not just the test suite. So seeing those bugs quickly is a > lot less interesting. True. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
